Air circus, Bowling [i.e., Bolling?] Field, soldiers, sailors, marines club, 8/1/25 – Antique Print
![Air circus, Bowling [i.e., Bolling?] Field, soldiers, sailors, marines club, 8/1/25, [19]25 August 1. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/73/73a1f913e4fe-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Air circus, Bowling [i.e., Bolling?] Field, soldiers, sailors, marines club, 8/1/25 comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Air circus, Bowling [i.e., Bolling?] Field, soldiers, sailors, marines club, 8/1/25
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An air show at Bolling Field in Washington, D.C., held for a club of soldiers, sailors and marines, is the subject of this August 1925 glass negative. The National Photo Company, a Washington commercial studio that documented the city's public events in the early twentieth century, made many pictures like it for newspapers and clients. Flying exhibitions drew large crowds in the 1920s, when aviation was still new to most people and military airfields were building a public profile. The surface shows streaks and blemishes from deterioration in the original coating.
| Created / published | [19]25 August 1. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch three. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,259 × 4,239 px · prints to 18 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-243419 |
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